• What does Google need from Android? – The most valuable aspect of Android to Google is the information it can gather from users. The danger is if Samsung or Amazon forks Android and excludes Google, cutting it off from the information it needs for its business model.

• Samsung’s predicament – As a tech market matures and stratifies, revenue tends to flow to the company that controls the operating system and platform. Will Samsung have to get into software in order to maintain its edge?